Men broke the internet’s collective brain last week when viral videos revealed that many of them think about the Roman Empire more frequently than many of us could have imagined. The trend became popular not only because of women’s incredulous responses to their straight-faced answers but because it felt like a secret, hiding in plain sight, had suddenly been unearthed for all to analyze. Sho…
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There’s no doubt that Channing Tatum’s Mike Lane, a buff, furniture-designing stripper with a heart of gold has become a hero of the zeitgeist, a very profitable cultural phenomenon, and a feminist icon that’s enchanted the likes of Roxane Gay, all while redefining how people think of not only male exotic dancers, but masculinity. Mike returns to the silver screen this week in…
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In mid-December, Netflix quietly canceled Warrior Nun, a fantasy drama series with a cult following. Based on Benn Dunn’s comic book character Warrior Nun Areala from 1993, the show follows Ava Silva (Alba Baptista) after she wakes up in a morgue with a divine artifact embedded in her back, suddenly part of an ancient order charged with fighting demons.
“I’ve just…
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No art form embodies the creative response to the collective grief, outrage, and protest that followed the May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd like the mural does. In the two years since Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minn., about 2,700 pieces of street art around the world have been created in response to his death, according to the George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street A…
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In The Marvels, directed by Nia DaCosta, Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris), and Ms. Marvel (Iman Vellani) team up to take down Dar-Benn, a Kree revolutionary who is traveling through space to steal resources for her planet Hala. Dar-Benn previously tried to stop Captain Marvel from destroying the Supreme Intelligence but failed to do so, igniting a desire fo…
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On Sept. 23 and 24, Houston was host to Beyoncé’s brilliance. The city took note: Harris County was dubbed, for several days, Bey County. Traffic across the inner loop’s interlocking roads felt more insufferable than usual. Both performances sold out, cries for last-minute tickets proliferated social media, and, arriving at NRG Park on either night—past the highway, over the hill, across…
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Palestinian American Bahia Amawi, a pediatric speech pathologist, lost her job with Austin, TX public schools after refusing to pledge that she would not boycott Israel. Mik Jordahl, a lawyer for Arizona’s prison system, lost his, too, after refusing to sign a contract that he would not boycott the country. And Arkansas journalist Alan Leveritt resisted pressure to renounce boycotts of Is…
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